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People are hailing Linux, but there's one big elephant in the room -- app sandboxing. While Microsoft surely tracks the Windows user, any software may be tracki
by oDot 3y ago
People are hailing Linux, but there's one big elephant in the room -- app sandboxing. While Microsoft surely tracks the Windows user, any software may be tracking the Linux user.
I've been on Linux for more than a decade, and even with advancements like Flatpak, Linux is very far from the protections Android, iOS, Mac and Windows have.
- Arnavion 3y agoApp sandboxing is less of a concern when the software you use is built from source in your distro's package repository, and is maintained by distro maintainers whose interests align more closely to yours than the software manufacturer's. Ironically, Flatpaks are software from upstream and thus harder to trust.
- oDot 3y agoYet comments here mention Steam, gaming, photo editing software, and I myself do video editing -- all of those are not going to be packaged by Debian.
- Arnavion 3y agoMy comment is very clearly about open-source software, yes. Also for photo editing and video editing there is open-source software, and there's no reason for Debian to not package it. In any case, "any software may be tracking the Linux user" is an exaggeration. The vast majority of software on the average Linux user's desktop is open-source software from their distro repo.
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- rustcleaner 3y agoQubes OS. Might not be for gaming, but it's perfect for the daily drive!
- oDot 3y agoEven with Qubes, you practically have a few big sandboxes holding several applications, rather than a tiny sandbox for each app Spectrum OS is trying to do that, but is still has a long way to go
- kovac 3y agoThe protection against tracking Linux users have is that the software we use is opensource. We have mutt, thunderbird, claws and we know they don't track us. We do not need Android, iOS, Mac "protections" here. We don't need overlords to protect us.